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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-08-23 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Thursday August 23, 2012, 10:00 a.m. Office of the Prosecuting Attorney – Hilo & Kona via video conference PRESENT EXCUSED Kimberly Schneider, Chair Carol Kitaoka Katie Nova, Vice Chair Dawn Pung Nancy Kelly, Treasurer Kathleen Peters Linda Ugalde Elena Cabatu (ex-officio) Diane Noda (ex-officio) ABSENT GUESTS Doodie Downs Darcy Makanui-Souza –Hospice of Hilo/ American Cancer Society Cyd L. Hoffeld – Bay Clinic CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 10:10 a.m. ROLL CALL A quorum was present. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Linda Ugalde moved to approve the agenda; Nancy Kelly seconded the motion. The motion was passed. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Nancy Kelly moved to approve the minutes; Linda Ugalde seconded the motion. The motion was passed. TREASURER’S REPORT Nancy Kelly reported that $174 was spent for mileage and $67.07 for meals. Linda Ugalde moved to approve the treasurer’s report; Kathy Peters seconded the motion. The motion was passed CORRESPONDENCE Lee Watanabe reported that there were no correspondences. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC Guest Cyd Hoffeld stated that she was happy to be here, excited and proud there’s a committee like this. 1 Elena Cabatu reported that she invited the two guests, Darcy Makanui-Souza & Cyd Hoffeld, to come and check out the committee since we have/will have openings and hopefully Darcy is interested in applying for the open committee slot. Cyd Hoffeld, Health Promotions Manager for Bay Clinic – health education in public and sexual health, previously with Women’s Shelter, was on FV Advisory Commission. Mentoring Darcy to participate and support organization to advance women issues. She is working on LGBT programs for youth to include gay pride activities and a LGBT prom. REPORTS A. EDUCATION 1. Urgent Services Directory Nancy Kelly reported that it was sent back to the printers for editing. We should be getting back the final as the 30 days to respond back is almost up. Nancy will check with OPA’s sr. account clerk on the status. No further update on the Urgent Services Directory. Kathy Peters suggested adding Volunteer Legal Services information on the directory; Kathy Peters will e-mail Nancy Kelly the information. 2. Equal Pay Elena Cabatu reported that she’s good on this topic. B. Health 1. Women’s Health Month Elena Cabatu reported on Ladies Night Out which will be held on Friday, September 21, 2012, 6:00p.m. – 9:00p.m. at the Hilo Civic. They’re expecting 750 women in attendance. Cyd and she are on the committee and in support of Hui Malama, they are encouraging as many women to attend. Admission is by tickets and they’re still available. Please let Elena know if you want tickets. If you know of anyone coming in from Kona or Waikoloa, Elena is offering accommodations at her house. The committee had approved $200 for this event. 2. Ads Elena Cabatu reported that the Teen Prevention radio spots that ran – the general consensus was that why can’t we have it played more often. The radio spot, “Asking your Aunty”, should be expanded to “Hey guys, ask your Uncle”. It’s suggested that the ads should run around key dates during the school year. Kim Schneider asked the cost of running the ads. Elena Cabatu reported that it cost about $4,000 to run the spots island wide for two weeks. She suggested three options of when to run the spots: 1) start of the school year; 2) Spring break; 3) start of summer. It was suggested that the schools include these spots on their overhead announcements – we should encourage the schools to play it on the overhead. More bang for the buck. Kathy Peters mentioned that we need to network with who we can approach; if we have access to anyone in the school system. 2 Cyd Hoffeld suggested Eileen Wagatsuma on the east side. Kathy Peters suggested we get in touch with the principals; we can send out a letter. Elena Cabatus suggested we ask for a letter from the Mayor to encourage this announcement. Elena Cabatu and Cyd Hoffeld volunteered to do this project. Kathy Peters mentioned that the information is vital if we can reach the schools and that it would be helpful for the mentorship, too. Discussion made regarding having overhead announcements at the schools. Kathy Peters thanked Elena Cabatu for the commercials; they were great commercials and we should listen to it if we haven’t heard it yet. Elena Cabatu will ask the committee for the same amount. She wants to be sure we have enough funding. The Commission is very supportive of this project. Nancy Kelly reported that nothing is allocated for this project, but $1,900 is allocated for the Hall of Fame and $1,500 is allocated for the workshop and co- sponsorship. Elena Cabatu suggested we wait until the end of the year to see how much we can allocate to the radio spots and use the Commission funding at the beginning of the fiscal year. C. Liaison 1. State Commission’s strategic planning Elena Cabatu will be attending a meeting next week and will report back on that. 2. Legislative Update The committee on Maui is encouraging Cathy Betts to do a presentation. We can pick and choose a topic (i.e., breastfeeding, emergency contraceptives, etc.) Kim Schneider suggested we should have her here in December since legislative session is in January. D. Community Reports None UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Hawaii County Women’s Hall of Fame – Committee Doodie Downs was not present to give a report. Kim Schneider reported that she called Doodie numerous times and has not heard from her. Linda Ugalde moved to cancel the Hawaii County Women’s Hall of Fame for 2012; Nancy Kelly seconded the motion. Discussion was held on whether this event should be held or do we divert our energy somewhere else. Nancy Kelly expressed that the Hall of Fame impacts the fewest people and that these types of events are mainly for organization fundraising. We might consider that this is something we might walk away from. 3 Kathy Peters suggested we look at doing the Hall of Fame less frequently. The last time there was the Hall of Fame event was in 2010. Linda Ugalde, who was a nominee then, expressed that she enjoyed it. She suggested that we do it maybe in three to five year intervals. Kathy Peters agreed. Kathy Peters mentioned that some of the nominees didn’t meet the standards the committee wanted. Linda Ugalde agreed. Kathy Peters mentioned that publicizing it and monitoring it is important. The problem has been the way we asked for nominations; we would need to work on that and change that (i.e., request for letter of recommendations, etc.). Attendance was poor. Invitations to the nominators need to happen from the beginning if we want good attendance. Kathy Peters mentioned that our committee worked better when we didn’t have any committee chairperson. Everyone took on certain responsibilities and worked together. Elena Cabatu suggested that we look into other avenues like the LGBT group. Peggy Hilton of CWS is very supportive of this group. Cyd Hoffeld will be attending an activities planning meeting next week. She also mentioned that Joy and Vanessa will be doing a presentation on Guardians of Liberty of the ACLU. Diane Noda suggested that based on limitations, we need to prioritize and cross off activities projects. Nancy Kelly suggested that the date/timing of the Hall of Fame be changed and that everyone should take responsibility to do it. Nancy Kelly questioned: do we amend Linda’s to include reallocation of money to other activities? Kim Schneider responded with a yes, we should reallocate money. Nancy Kelly proposed to also add to Linda’s motion to reallocate $1,900 budget to this activity to other activities. Linda Ugalde seconded the motion. The motion was passed. Linda Ugalde’s original motion was to cancel the Hall of Fame 2012 and reallocate the money. Question arose: do we need another motion to look at it for 2015? Diane Noda stated that it can be brought up as new business in the future. She also mentioned that the 2014 budget is due by November so we need to decide if we want that budgeted. Kim Schneider asked for reclarification of when the budget is due. She requested that this be discussed at the November meeting. She also questioned when is our next meeting and how many meetings we have this year; by-laws states six meetings in a year; however, Nancy Kelly stated that we can have extra meetings as we’re saving money on mileage by having video conferencing. B. Mentoring Kathy Peters stated that she did a draft of the mentoring form. It was distributed to all attendees of the meeting. She would like the committee, club or group (AAUW meetings) to recruit people to match up as mentors with high school girls. Women should be approached as to what they’re able to give of their time and they’ll match up with high school girls. 4 Kim Schneider suggested posting it on Facebook. Kathy Peters stated we need to get info out to young girls through Facebook. It’s done privately where they need to be invited and they’ll get the information; committee members are to input the feeds. Kim Schneider suggested we keep that in our minds on how to get across to the high school girls. Kathy Peters asked that the committee members look at the form and e-mail her the changes. She will finalize the form before her term ends. She suggested that when the mentors complete the forms that we hand collect them. Diane Noda suggested we obtain both mailing and e-mail addresses. Katie Nova asked that the contact information be sent to Kathy Peters. Darcy Makanui-Souza questioned if there is any criteria the mentor has to meet. Kathy Peters responded with a no; mentoring is done with a high school girl through college; however, the more resources listed, the better it is. Nancy Kelly mentioned that even if the mentor didn’t go to college, they’ll be a great mentor especially for someone who’s contemplating not going to college. The mentor can suggest and explain why the girl should continue her education. Kim Schneider mentioned that the chair for this mentoring project is on the table. There may be people interested in working on the committee. Before Kathy Peters exits, we should have someone in place to chair this project. Katie Nova – we the committee have wanted to do this mentoring. She would be willing to assist but not chair. There might be other people not on the committee who is willing to chair this project. Elena Cabatu suggested that someone at the Women’s Center at the UH-Hilo might be interested. Kathy Peters mentioned that she’ll be the contact person for this project. Diane Noda mentioned that Kathy & Dawn’s terms are up; however, their positions can be held over for 90 days (until the end of March) if there’s no replacement. Diane Noda will check into the County rules on Facebook; the social networking limitations. She mentioned that if it’s not attached to the County, there’s no problem but will look into anyway. NEW BUSINESS A. VOTER REGISTRATION Kim Schneider reported that the voter registration is from August 26 thru September 16. If anyone is interested in the Kona Village Stroll; there’s a free spot for a booth; however, she won’t know until the last minute. She mentioned that at the last Kona Village Stroll, it was lots of fun and there were a lot of people who picked up applications. If you’re interested in doing the Kona Village Stroll, please e-mail Kim Schneider. Katie Nova has the tent; Kathy Peters will send Lee Watanabe the 2-year extended warranty for safe keeping. B. Membership Kim Schneider thanked Elena Cabatu for inviting Cyd Hoffeld and Darcy Makanui- Souza to the meeting. She will invite people to the next meeting. 5 Katie Nova asked how many spots we need to fill and that maybe we should consider someone from Puna or other districts. Diane Noda responded that there’s no geographical restrictions; the by-laws say we need at least 9 members. We will have three spots to fill at the end of the year. Katie Nova suggested we keep people in mind to fill the spots. Suggested we have someone from North Kohala, Kona and Puna. Darcy Makanui-Souza expressed interest. ANNOUNCEMENT A. Next Meeting The next meeting will be held on Friday, October 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m. at the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney – Hilo, Conference Room B and the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney – Kona, Video Conference Room via video conference. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 11:28 a.m. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, LEE S. WATANABE, STAFF SECRETARY 6